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Italy citizenship: required documents

The documents you'll gather for Italy citizenship by descent, by route and by ancestor. Your exact list is generated from your lineage in the wizard.

Consulate Route

Standard jure sanguinis recognition through your local Italian consulate

You

  • •Your Birth Certificate
  • •Your Marriage Certificate (if applicable) — if_married
  • •Divorce Decree (if applicable) — if_divorced
  • •Subsequent Marriage Certificate (if applicable) — if_has_name_changes

Each ancestor in the chain

  • •Birth Certificate
  • •Death Certificate (if applicable) — if_deceased
  • •Adoption Decree (if applicable) — if_adopted
  • •Amended Birth Certificate (if applicable) — if_adopted
  • •Italian Baptism Certificate (if applicable)
  • •Name Connection / Spelling Variation Proof (if applicable)
  • •Additional Supporting Documents (if applicable)
  • •Marriage Certificate
  • •Divorce Decree (if applicable) — if_divorced
  • •Subsequent Marriage Certificate (if applicable) — if_has_name_changes

Your Italian-born ancestor

  • •Italian Birth Certificate (from Comune)
  • •Italian Marriage Certificate (if married in Italy)
  • •NARA Passenger Arrival Records (if applicable) — if_immigrated
  • •Full Naturalization Packet
  • •USCIS Certificate of Non-Existence (CONE)
  • •NARA Letter of Negative Search

1948 Judicial Route

Court-based recognition for lineages that pass through a woman whose child was born before January 1, 1948

You

  • •Your Birth Certificate
  • •Power of Attorney (Procura)
  • •Court Filing Fees
  • •Ricorso (Court Petition)
  • •Sentenza (Court Judgment)
  • •Post-Judgment Registration
  • •Your Marriage Certificate (if applicable) — if_married
  • •Divorce Decree (if applicable) — if_divorced
  • •Subsequent Marriage Certificate (if applicable) — if_has_name_changes

Each ancestor in the chain

  • •Birth Certificate
  • •Death Certificate (if applicable) — if_deceased
  • •Adoption Decree (if applicable) — if_adopted
  • •Amended Birth Certificate (if applicable) — if_adopted
  • •Italian Baptism Certificate (if applicable)
  • •Name Connection / Spelling Variation Proof (if applicable)
  • •Additional Supporting Documents (if applicable)
  • •Marriage Certificate
  • •Divorce Decree (if applicable) — if_divorced
  • •Subsequent Marriage Certificate (if applicable) — if_has_name_changes

Your Italian-born ancestor

  • •Italian Birth Certificate (from Comune)
  • •NARA Passenger Arrival Records (if applicable) — if_immigrated
  • •Full Naturalization Packet
  • •USCIS Certificate of Non-Existence (CONE)
  • •NARA Letter of Negative Search
  • •Italian Marriage Certificate (if married in Italy)

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